Anti-India hate has spread on online platforms and physical calls across America. However, there is one focus that has gained global attention for repeatedly highlighting the rhetoric, to the point where influencers and reporters from across the country are traveling to North Texas to report on the increasing activity against American Indians while also blaming them for “H-1B visa fraud” and “capture.”
Cities like Frisco and Plano, which have greater community representation, became the cause of hate speech especially at city council meetings, videos of which later spread online. While the state’s Indian community has remained largely silent in their reaction to propaganda against them, young people are gradually beginning to speak out. Recently, an Indian-American resident who has lived in Texas for 22 years spoke out against this narrative at the Frisco City Council meeting on April 7, 2026.
He said the narrative is being driven by far-right influencers aiming to gain influence. Sahas Kaul said he wants to expose the people behind the rhetoric targeting Frisco’s growing minority demographic. He said the events at the meeting were not a “spontaneous outpouring of community concerns” but a “coordinated campaign.” He added that the speakers’ warning of the growing Indian presence in the city came “in script” and he delivered speeches with the same language, rhetoric and talking points at city council meetings across the country.
“Wherever there’s a visible South Asian community, these groups show up. They’re not worried about Frisco, they’re using Frisco,” he added. Cowell added that speakers were aware that the City Council couldn’t deport people, change federal laws or change demographics, yet they showed up at meetings for “video.” “A city council meeting is the perfect backdrop for angry content, it looks formal, it feels like civic engagement and the photos are well captured.
You can say something exciting in front of a government seal, film the reaction, post it, and by the morning you have 50,000 views, a surge of new followers and donation links in your bio.He blamed the content creators for using a public platform as a “film set”, while using Indian neighbors as “props”. He said that the undisputed speeches spread quickly and caused great harm to people. “When someone stands on this podium and calls our Indian neighbors crooks and invaders, he is not speaking to the Council, he is speaking to every Indian-American family watching this meeting via livestream,” he said. Cowell claimed that hostility towards Indians was not new, as Jews were met with the same treatment at the beginning of the twentieth century, accused of corrupting American culture and taking jobs, against Italian and Irish immigrants who were described as criminals and invaders, and against Japanese immigrants who lost everything they had built. “This trend occurred against every group that was clearly different, clearly successful, and therefore clearly useful as a scapegoat for someone else’s agenda.
He added that the targeted community was giving more than it took every time. The young man of Indian origin claimed that the creators aimed to create fear, and that Frisco was “too smart and too good in the city to be used in this way,” while also asking people to protect the community “firmly.”
Many in the comments praised Cowell for speaking out. “Finally, someone like Sahas came forward and spoke the right thing. Hatred for a particular ethnic group cannot gain anything for anyone,” one user wrote. Another added: “Bravo! Whoever raised this young man should be proud.” “Bro confirmed this was a coordinated psychological operation. He even called out the Twitter algorithm at the end. Exactly the rhetoric needed,” one appreciated. Previously, Neha Suratran, another Indian-origin resident of Frisco, Texas, spoke out against the growing anti-India rhetoric as activists chose to spread hate at city council meetings creating strong opinions based on viral posts, regardless of the facts. She said the Indian community in America has higher education, higher income and a lower crime rate, yet has been vilified in the “Indian takeover” narrative.